Usually means: Makes more secure or constricted.
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  1. tightens: Merriam-Webster
  2. tightens: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tightens: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tightens, tightens: Wordnik
  5. tightens: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tightens: Wiktionary
  7. tightens: Dictionary.com
  8. tightens: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. tightens: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tightens: Legal dictionary

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  1. tightens: Idioms

(Note: See tighten as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tighten)

verb:  (transitive) To make tighter.
verb:  (intransitive) To become tighter.
verb:  (economics) To make money harder to borrow or obtain.
verb:  (economics) To raise short-term interest rates.
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